In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing, and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places. Among the borrowed notions by which his barbarism had become semified was that of the public arena, in which, by exhibitions of manly and beastly valor, the minds of his subjects were refined and cultured. But even here the exuberant and barbaric fancy asserted itself. The arena of the king was built, not to give the people an opportunity of hearing the rhapsodies of dying gladiators, nor to enable them to view the inevitable conclusion of a conflict between religious opinions and hungry jaws, but for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop the mental energies of the people. This vast amphitheater, with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance. When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a structure which well deserved its name, for, although its form and plan were borrowed from afar, its purpose emanated solely from the brain of this man, who, every barleycorn a king, knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than pleased his fancy, and who ingrafted on every adopted form of human thought and action the rich growth of his barbaric idealism. When all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. Directly opposite him, on the other side of the enclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open either door he pleased; he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of the aforementioned impartial and incorruptible chance. If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt. The moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided, doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience, with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have merited so dire a fate. {text:bookmark-start} But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of...

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Passionate Love and Jealousy
Which overpowers the other, love or jealousy? Can love really go so far as to cause someone agony just to save a life? Can jealousy go so far as to inflict murder? When looking at the story in more depth, I think the princess indeed directed the young man toward the lady because of the passionate love that she had toward him. Due to the strong emotion that she had for him, the princess would not have wanted him killed or even hurt by the tiger.
Stockton writes “ she sat there, paler and whiter than any one in the vast ocean of anxious faces,” by the princess facial and mental expression, if she were barbaric enough to send the young man to his death, she would have had a smile, or some sort of expression, that proved her to be barbaric as her father, the king. But the semi-barbaric princess was in love with the man. Her face was pale and white because she was about to send him into the arms of another woman, and never again would she be in his arms. The princess was very sad and heartbroken because she was about to witness the tragedy first hand.
The princess said to herself if her lover were wed to another, it would be like having her “soul burned in agony.” However, being quick to make decisions will land you with that prospect; on the other side, the truth is the opposite. You have to look at why the princess hated the woman. She hated the woman because she was jealous...

...The Lady or the Tiger
The lady was behind the right door. This is because, if you truly think about it…
you realize that all stories will end hopefully happy. So this is how it goes, he marries
the girl behind the door and lives. If the princess really loves him, then she will be happy
just to see him alive and happy. Obviously she will be heart broken and sad, but its all
because of her father. It may take time for her to understand that, but once she realizes
it, she’ll see that its better to have him alive and happy with a beautiful girl, than torn up
into bloody pieces dead. According to the story, “She also knew who the lady was. The
lady was one of the loveliest in the kingdom.” So most likely she knows the girl, and
knows that if she can’t have him, than the loveliest lady in the kingdom should.
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The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton (1834 – 1902)
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This short story long time ago was about a semibarbaric King who was very powerful that he himself only decides how things are to be done. The King created a public arena where he lays the fate of a person accused to a crime. It is the King’s semibarbaric method of justice. The accused is given the privileged to select one of the two doors. Behind one door was a tiger that would devour and tear into pieces the guilty and behind the other was a beautiful maiden who would marry the innocent.
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...“THE LADY OR THE TIGER “
1) Exuberant-effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic
Emanate-to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth
Dire-causing or involving great fear or suffering
Florid-Obsolete
Retribution-requital according to merits or deserts
Aesthetic-pertaining to a sense of the beautiful
2) The lesson of the story to me is the consequences of your actions. Poor prisoners of the king are forced to choose one of two doors which hold behind them either life or death. And then the princess of course has the difficult choice to make whether she should tell her lover the truth about who is behind which door or not.
3) Examples of irony is when the narrator says that “the minds of the king’s subjects are refined* and cultured*” by witnessing the events in the arena. This statement is ironic because a person being slaughtered is neither refining nor cultural. We are also told that the princess finds out that the lady chosen to be behind the door just happens to be a woman the princess was already jealous of. She has to choose whether or not to give her lover to a woman she hates, or to a tiger that will kill the accused person was instantly punished, and there was no escape from the judgments of the king's arena.ent of innocence or guilt up to chance is very ironic.
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From my point of view, in this short story The Lady, or The Tiger?, the writer, Frank Stockton has included and narrated some of the characters. The characters are the people who responsible for the thought and actions in this short story. They are extremely important because they will help the readers to understand the whole parts of the story line through their actions. Each character has he/her own attitudes, mannerism and appearances or making it briefly, their personalities will greatly give an influence to the progress of the story line, starting from the beginning of the story until the end. In this short story, Frank Stockton has included some of the characters with different personalities to make this story more entertaining.
The first character is the commoner, a young man who can be said as a role character in this short story. He is being described by the writer as a handsome and brave man, who has adored the princess of the kingdom. This can be proven as everybody impressed by his good-looking face until he already got the princess’s attention towards him. However, their affair has been known by the king of the kingdom, results to his imprisonment and trial at the arena in which his destiny will be determined. He put his trust on the princess without the slightest hesitation when she gives a sign to him to choose the right door.
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Essay on “The Lady Or The Tiger?”
Frank R. Stockton is an American novelist born in Philadelphia in 1834. Frank lived a mischievous boyhood but once he grow up he began to study engraving on wood well on the side he started writing as it was his true passion. When the story “The Lady Or The Tiger?” was written it had been translated into many different languages through the success Stockton had with it, since he composed such an exquisite piece of literature. Stockton made this so with his ability to engage the readers, his use of language to create suspenseful imagery and the messages within to help you learn something about the world around you.
Stockton engages the reader by writing “The Lady Or The Tiger?” in full detail but with the intelligence and control not to sway or hint more to one side over the other as to what could happen. Getting near the end of the story the point of view changes to the princess, where it shows the battle within her head on what to do with her lover after she had accomplished in finding out the secret of what was behind each of the doors, being the first one to ever do so. As she struggles to come to a decision she has thoughts of “how often in her walking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover, opening the door on the other side of...

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1.Abstract: This paper is going to make out a brief analysis on the text The lady or the tiger?. It is written by the American writer Frank Richard Stockton. A story happen before time about a handsome young men having done a crime for loving the daughter of a semi-barbaric king and he would be judged by the justic system created by the king whether he is innocent or not. The analysis will be done mainly on two stylistic features, syntactic feature and lexical feature.
2.Key words: parenthetical constructions, Long sentences, Formal words, Lexical repetition
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1. Brief account of the author
Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known for his fable "The Lady or the Tiger? (1882), about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with the king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger, who will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, motioning to him to choose the door on the right. The story ends abruptly there, without telling us whether she was pointing...